On 09/19/2011 05:18 PM, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Il 19/09/2011 15:34, Richard Heck ha scritto: >> In its present state, too, LyX is likely to do very weird things >> (e.g., interpret inset arguments as plain text), if not crash, since >> it will get confused about where it is in the parsing. If we had a >> structured (e.g., XML) format, then we could ignore everything within >> the tags we don't recognize, but the format is not well enough >> defined to do this as things now are. > > One question: assuming the LyX parser gets confused (finds something > unexpected) at some point, e..g, due to a new inset type that cannot > be parsed -- what would happen if we simply discarded the current > inset contents, till the next "\begin_inset" or "\begin_layout", or > whatever is again understandable ? > One could try to do this---I think you'd probably want to discard everything until you get to the end of whatever you were trying to parse---but I'm not sure there's any centralized place to do it. Consider e.g. how different the tabular format is from everything else.
>> All of that said, the issue that started this, as I recall, had to do >> with a failure to parse the preferences file. In that case, surely, >> LyX should just start, throwing a warning, and perhaps asking if the >> user would like to erase the invalid file and start afresh. That >> ought to be easy enough to do. > > exactly, I would expect exactly that. If I manually delete the cache > folder, it is re-created, if I delete the .lyx/ folder, it is > re-created. If I have a typo in the prefs file, just ask me whether I > prefer to start over with a fresh new one or I prefer to fix it manually. > If you want to file a bug for this, cc'ing me, I will get to it. Richard
